From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 20:26:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0AF37B5EA for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA96637; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:26:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200007190326.WAA96637@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: "Certified" FreeBSD hardware In-Reply-To: <200007190252.MAA58201@gw.one.com.au> from User Raymond at "Jul 19, 2000 12:52:15 pm" To: raymond@one.com.au (User Raymond) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:26:19 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG User Raymond babbled: > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:52:15 +1000 (EST) > We supply FreeBSD on good quality systems but have come up against > a multi-national customer that requires a "FreeBSD Certified" system > from a "Tier 1" company. By "Tier 1" they mean IBM, Compaq, HP etc. > > Does anyone know of a "Tier 1" company that provides "FreeBSD Certified" > systems or better still will support FreeBSD. It appears that > Compaq and HP (and probably others) provide "linux Certified" systems. For a large enough order I'm sure Dell would do this. In addition to Linux, which they own up to, I believe they've done it for SCO, which they've kept quiet. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message